Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes - Page 4

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• The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Passion, Zest, Giving

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1968). “Writings in Time of War”

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

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  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Water, Wade

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• The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

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  Dog, Pet, Doe

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• Faith has need of the whole truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Needs, Whole, Whole Truth

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• Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

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  Science, Evolution, Process

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Everything that rises must converge.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Ascent

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

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  Science, Expression, Atoms

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• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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  Two, World, Summit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

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  Psychics, Long, Path

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

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  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Life, Molecules

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

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  Science, Men, Mirrors

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

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  Reality, Matter, Spirit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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  Men, Essence, Progress

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• In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

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  Spiritual, Process, Spiritual Life

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

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  Taken, Men, Two

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1965). “The Appearance of Man”

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• Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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  Men, Bud, Complicated

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• The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

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  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

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• Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Joy, Evidence Of God, Evidence

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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  Life, Couple, Team

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

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  Heart, Soul, Lord

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Doe, World, God Love

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